Track for door-hangers.



E. W. TOPPING, DEGD. w. v. B. TOPPING, ADMINISTRATOR. TRACK FOR DOOR HANGERS. APPLICATION FILED- AUG. 12, 1909.

Patented July 5, i910.

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TRACK FOR DOOR-HANGERS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be'it known that I, EDWARD :W'. TOPPING a citizen of the United States, resident of Ashland, county Ohio, have invented a new anduscful Improvement in Tracks for Door-Hangers, of which-the following is a specification, the principle of the invention being herein ex plained, and the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

y invention relates to tracks for door hangers, and more particularly to an improvement therein, whereby jamming or wedging of the door hanger upon its tracks ecomes a practical impossibility. Heretofore, in door hangers of that general type which run upon two individual tracks, the latter have two individual rollers upon a single axis would run. My invention, then, while en1- bodyin'g this broad principle acknowledged as old, combinesnovel features serving to effect the new and meritorious result above suggested. v

The said invention consists of means which are hereinafter fully described and particularly set forth in the claims.

The annexed drawing and the following description set forth in detail certain means for carrying out my invention, the disclosed means, however, constituting but one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of the invention may be applied.

In said annexed drawings :Figure 1 is a vertical cross section of a track and sup port constructed after the manner of my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section of a track and support, similar to that shown in Fig. l, but showing a modified form of support. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the complete structure partly in section, showing the relative positions of the traveling hanger with reference to the track. Fig. 4 is a horizontal cross section upon line wa of Fig. 3, as seen from above.

Like letters of reference refer to similar parts; throughoutthe several views.

Thetrack A, as I have shown. it, is substantially tubular in form, and open at the bottom,-while.the lower inner ends terminate in parallel horizontal beads a forming run ways. These are suthciently' spaced apart to permit of the passage of the depending portion E of a traveling hanger C, herein--' Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed August 12, 1909. Serial No.512,585.

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l I after particularly described. By theiluse o run-ways, sagging and spreading a pre vented, and a more rigid and fixed trlick to the carrier is the arched construction at the top lot the tubular track serves the dual purpose of strengthening the track and turningtliie rain, snow or sleet, thus protecting the carrier from inclement weather. may be employed, and still be within the spirit of my invention, so long as the internal parallel horizontal beads are employed. The track support a of my invention is rial, as sheet metal, though it' may very well be of cast iron, as in the variation thereof shown in Fig. 2. The main. body portion a is likewise tubular in form, or substantially so, to surround and conform contour of the tubular track A, and in the same way is open at the bottom. At the middle of the upper surface there is provided a projecting ear a. This permits the support may be suspended from the side of a barn or any other structure B by means of bolts 6'1 Its free edges a are similarly arched inwardly to underlie and support the runways a of the track stood tha a series of supports might be used track.

A traveling hanger C is. of such a size that it may support upon the tracks of which it operates. The hanger consists of two uniform and equal sized integral rollers D D, whose axes cl d are connected by two parallel side plates 0''. 0. way between the rollers, as shown. Connecting the centers of this reduced middle section of these plates 0 c, I provide a rivet e, from which the supporting plate.

late as an axis. This plateissomewhat thinner than the slot exlsting between the tracks a a, so that it may hang freely therethrough, and. is further restricted to a midl this beaded or arched construction lbf th '5 preferably formed of a single piece of mateto the exterior to serve as a bracket, by which the track A. It will be underat stipulated distances around the tubular readily be inserted into the tubular These may be indented mid- Any form of track 65? E is suspended, and upon which it may oscil- 1 dle position upon its axis 6 by the collars As represented in Fig. 4, the rollers D D are double grooved, the width between the fcenter lines of the grooves on each individual roller provided. v Atthe same time. 0

corresnrmdinoexactly to the width between the center lines of the two tracks a a, while their respective concave and convex curves are likewise identical.

Thus, the rollers are operated smoothly and uniformly u on the trucks.

Havin fully described my invention, What I eiaim therefor and desire to secure by Letters Patent is? 1. As a new article of manufacture, 2i, tubular track formed of n single pieee'of metal, open at the bottom, and having free edges bent up at an angle thereto and arched inwardly and upwzu' 1y to form two perailel and horizontal convex runways, the latter being non-contiguous.

2. In a device of the chereeter described, the combination with a tubular track open at the bottom, and having its edges bent up at an angle thereto and arched inwardlyto form two parallel horizontal and convex run-Ways; of a traveling hanger includlng in its structure an integral double-grooved V roller adapted to run upon said run-Ways.

Signed by me, this 9th day of August,

.EDVVARD W. TOPPING.

Attested by- WM. R. MILLER, (In/is. R. Minnnm 

